Example sentences of "[adj] more [subord] [art] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sharpe knew he was seeing much more than a cavalry raid , though he was not certain whether this was the real invasion . |
| 2 | This work with great and powerful climaxes in first and last movements ; with a scherzo as light as thistledown , a truly poetic slow movement and tremendous pageantry in the finale is much more than a series of vignettes of a great city . |
| 3 | The point effectively being made is that , if making a poor person better off by £1 via a redistributive transfer reduces the income of the rich person by more than £1 ( because of , say , the necessary administrative costs of the transfer and/or the disincentive effects to earn in the market-place ) , how much more than the £1 gain to the poor is an acceptable ‘ price ’ ? |
| 4 | As the income of the much smaller Missenden Abbey was given as £160 , compared with £262 net in 1535 , its goods may have been worth much more than the £140 assessed . |
| 5 | The poem would then be little more than a series of distortions , ‘ propaganda for the victors ’ . |
| 6 | The way to the front door was of long , unevenly sunken slabs of concrete so that the path was little more than a series of stepping stones . |
| 7 | A task force sent out by the House of Representatives ' banking committee estimates that sorting out America 's savings and loan mess could cost as much as $162 billion more than the $50 billion authorised by Congress less than a year ago . |
| 8 | Mind is not to be found in molecules any more than the works of Shakespeare were to be found in his genes . |
| 9 | The " Pseudo-Isidorean " team could have accomplished their work nowhere else in the Carolingian world , any more than the series of conciliar acts and episcopal statutes could have been produced anywhere else on such a sustained large scale . |